(PHOTO 1: Rev. Jean-Paul Moka)
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(PHOTO 2: Belgian businessman and whistleblower Yves De Moor during a presentation of his paper on September 12, 2012 at the 5th West & Central African Mining Summit in Accra, Ghana)
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The conventional wisdom across the political spectrum in the DRC is that Rev. Jean-Paul Moka is a highfalutin bloviator and liar.
But not a high-flying swindler...until now. At least, if what Belgian businessman Yves De Moor has just revealed to me about the new scheme concocted by Rev. Moka proves to be true...
And the allegations by De Moor, a successful businessman, are all the more credible that the man stands to gain nothing by blowing the whistle on Rev. Moka. More on these explosive allegations, backed by documents, below.
Now, if it's a con that the man of God is really pulling, then he chose the wrong moment.
These days, police sleuths are on the lookout for crooks and thieves. Especially in the heels of the dragnet that nabbed a gang of swindlers led by one Malubunyi Kaloba John Israël who were posing as Kabila and his associates. The four-strong gang (that included a middle-aged woman) were presented to the media at a presser convened last Thursday by Interior Minister Richard Muyej.
(Police investigators allege that Malubunyi had developed uncanny ventriloquist skills when it came to imitating Kabila's voice over the phone when dealing with foreign investors he bilked out of millions of dollars.)
Rev. Moka has had occasion, to be sure, to claim, for instance, that he was once taken in the dead of the night from his cell at Kinshasa Makala Prison by a death squad sent by Joseph Kabila, who drove him and others to a piece of waste land in the N'Djili Commune, where they shot and killed and buried him!
Then, as Moka is a faithful servant of the Lord, he was brought back to life a few hours afterwards by none other than Jesus Christ himself, who tore his tomb asunder, left other Kabila's victims to rot in the mass grave, and set him on the path his current glorious ministry!
Well, it turns out that Moka was instead jailed at Makala Prison for fleecing the Memling, a Belgian-owned Kinshasa hotel by failing to pay his room and board bills--a scam called "grivèlerie" or chiseling.
(Rev. Moka's mischiefs, see the first part of the following post aptly titled "Nollywood stuff": http://alexengwete.blogspot.com/2011/09/drc-elections-2011-watch-1-nollywood.html?m=1)
But the scheme Yves De Moor has just uncovered will set Rev. Moka on a par with Malubunyi.
Rev. Moka's machination is quite simple: he is the mastermind behind the so-called Zurich Summit in Switzerland where the global political and financial elites will assemble and rally behind his $300b-Marshall Plan for the DRC.
Moka has been selling this notion of a DRC Marshall Plan since his phony presidential bid of 2011 when his Marshall Plan was still worth $60b.
There's a catch or caveat, if you will, in Moka's grand design: the DRC has to come up with $1m to fund his Summit.
And that's not all: in the meantime, he's allegedly soliciting $100,000 a pop from business people who'd be willing to meet with Joseph Kabila and other high rollers of the Congolese scene.
And that's why Rev. Moka is in Kinshasa these days, warns Yves De Moor.
Though a disgraced petty thief who went to Makala Prison for "grivèlerie" (chiseling), Rev. Moka has an eerie innate ability to bamboozle unsuspecting suckers.
And among Rev. Moka's recent suckers figures no doubt Professor Mathias Buabua wa Kayembe, managing director of ANAPI (the Congolese national agency for the promotion of investments), who wrote on July 19 to DRC Ambassador accredited to Brussels soliciting on behalf of Moka and his associate Breuls de Tiecken, that the visas of the pair to the DRC be expedited.
According to the letter by Professor Buabua whose PDF copy Yves De Moor emailed me, the objective of Rev. Moka's current trip to Kinshasa is "to meet with the country's Highest Authorities on the subject of the Zurich Summit for the Marshall Plan of $300b over fifteen years for the benefit of our country, which will be held in Zurich from 09 to 11 September 2013."
A few comments are now in order:
1) According to De Moor, the Marshall Plan for the DRC is the brainchild of his and of Dr. Faustin Mukela Luanga, an economist and erstwhile adviser to Kabila. Dr. Mukela Luanga now works for the World Trade Organization (WTO).
De Moor additionally claims that the Zurich Summit is also the brainchild of Dr. Mukela Luanga, who was swindled out of $30,000 by Rev. Moka.
2) The letter by Professor Mathias Buabua wa Kayembe is clearly requesting that visas be expedited for two Belgian citizens, as Rev. Moka wouldn't need any visa to travel to the DRC if he still had Congolese nationality. (Breuls de Tiecken passport number is EI 932393; and Jean-Paul Monga Ngolo passport number is EH 878902).
Was he already a Belgian citizen when he was attempting to run for DRC president or when he lobbied for the position of chairman of the electoral commission? If so, he ought to be immediately investigated by Congolese police.
3) In an email written on the same day that Professor Mathias Buabua wa Kayembe addressed his letter to the DRC ambassador in Belgium, Rev. Moka inserted a copy of that letter in the attachment of his email with the false claim that it was the official invitation of the DRC government,
This pattern of lies and deception exasperates Yves De Moor who thinks that Rev. Moka is a "sociopath, a megalomaniac, and a swindler disguised in a smart suit and a flashing power tie."
De Moor points to Rev. Moka's doctored CV that is replete with outlandish claims: Moka has never attended Harvard or St. Andrews (Scotland), prestigious schools prominently featured in the educational trajectory of the mendacious pastor.
Moka goes around telling people he's the CEO of a banking entity called Ebenbank--though he's never had a career in the banking of financial sector.
More tellingly, De Moor adds, Moka boasted about being the co-mediator with former Ghanaian President John Kufuor between the opposition and the ruling majority in the DRC's post-electoral crisis following the November 2011 elections.
That's a bold-faced lie, crafty planted in the European press--especially the Belgian news agency Belga--by Rev. Moka via the Chinese press Xinhua, De Moor says.
The theory is that Moka has a Congolese mole in the Kinshasa bureau of Xinhua who regularly plants stories on Moka, who then alerts western media groups about those newswires in order to have them recycle those fake stories.
Before the appointment of Apollinaire Malumalu as head of the new DRC's electoral commission, a story that first appeared on Xinhua alleging that Rev. Moka was being considered for that job was quickly relayed by Belga agency before being recycled by the Congolese media.
And then on January 1, 2013, Belga cited a so-called joint communiqué allegedly issued by Kufuor and Moka announcing that the international co-mediation they were carrying out since 2011 was ending its activities on January 3--conveniently after Kabila called in his new year's message for a national political dialogue!
Yves De Moor is warning the Congolese: Moka is hellbent on swindling the Congolese government--especially the national agency of the promotion of investments that seems to have a gullible managing director.
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PHOTO CREDITS: PHOTO 1: By Belga/Julien Warnand Via rtbf.be; PHOTO 2: Via dmltrading.eu